Dr. Martin Luther King Was A Great Man
“When we allow freedom to ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: ‘Free at last! Free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!’" The man that said this, born January 15, 1929, brought freedom to thousands of people. Now, thanks to him, many faces can live in one community together without conflict of race. I believe Dr. King was a great man, because he inspired me, brought peace, and encouraged people. Martin Luther King Jr. was an inspiration to lots of people. His
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I am glad Martin brought the peace he did. When he was just 15 years old in 1944, he learned how what racial relations were outside of the segregated South. He was very shocked and stunned how peaceful the relation between races were in the North. From the mid-1950s until April 4, 1968, Michael Luther King Jr., Dr. King’s original name, was a Baptist minister and social activist and led the civil rights movement in the U.S.(Gaber). He was a huge help in the Civil Rights movement. His March on Washington protest was one of his biggest. It is here that he made his famous I Have a Dream speech. Earlier, he had started the bus boycott in Montgomery. Rosa Parks is the reason it started. She got on a bus one day and sat at the front when she was supposed to sit in the back. She stayed there and when a white person told her to give them her seat and go sit in the back of the bus. She refused and got arrested. Dr. King started a boycott were no black people rode the bus. Even some white people helped. All the people that participated in this simply walked to where they needed to go. Some even rode in taxis. With so many people not paying to ride the busses, the bus companies started going broke. After 3 months it finally worked. On December 20, 1956, Congress took away the rule that said blacks had to give up their seats for whites and sit in the back of buses. Later, in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. King’s house was bombed on, almost killing his wife, Coretta Scott King and his 10
I am glad Martin brought the peace he did. When he was just 15 years old in 1944, he learned how what racial relations were outside of the segregated South. He was very shocked and stunned how peaceful the relation between races were in the North. From the mid-1950s until April 4, 1968, Michael Luther King Jr., Dr. King’s original name, was a Baptist minister and social activist and led the civil rights movement in the U.S.(Gaber). He was a huge help in the Civil Rights movement. His March on Washington protest was one of his biggest. It is here that he made his famous I Have a Dream speech. Earlier, he had started the bus boycott in Montgomery. Rosa Parks is the reason it started. She got on a bus one day and sat at the front when she was supposed to sit in the back. She stayed there and when a white person told her to give them her seat and go sit in the back of the bus. She refused and got arrested. Dr. King started a boycott were no black people rode the bus. Even some white people helped. All the people that participated in this simply walked to where they needed to go. Some even rode in taxis. With so many people not paying to ride the busses, the bus companies started going broke. After 3 months it finally worked. On December 20, 1956, Congress took away the rule that said blacks had to give up their seats for whites and sit in the back of buses. Later, in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. King’s house was bombed on, almost killing his wife, Coretta Scott King and his 10